Daniel Luzer

It may be just cheating. According to an Associated Press article in the Buffalo News: Food services giant Sodexo has agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims that it overcharged 21 New York school districts and the State University of New York over a five-year span. This comes after New York State’s attorney general, […]

Education advocates are now very concerned with getting more Americans into college, at least in order to remain globally competitive. But leaving aside troublesome funding issues, where are they all going to go? At least one major Midwestern university wonders if it’s already getting too big. According to an article by B.A. Morelli in the […]

The U.S. Department of Education has finally released its much-anticipiated gainful employment rule, the device that allows for-profit colleges to remain eligible for federal financial aid. According to an article by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed: Striking a middle ground between aggressively attacking for-profit higher education and backing down under the sector’s intense lobbying […]

The College Board warns that America is not getting enough students through college. As Tamar Lewin writes for the New York Times: “The growing education deficit is no less a threat to our nation’s long-term well-being than the current fiscal crisis,” Gaston Caperton, the president of the College Board, warned at a meeting on Capitol […]

On July 11 and 12 The Tennessean ran several articles about problems at Tennessee State University, a state-supported historically black school in Nashville. As the lead article summarized, “a symbol of success and hope in north Nashville for decades, Tennessee State University’s struggle with enrollment, graduation rates and poor business practices threatens to thwart its […]

In 2005 University of Southern California running back Reggie Bush won the Heisman Trophy. The Heisman Trophy Trust gives the award annually to the football player the trust deems to be the “most outstanding” college athlete. Well now Reggie Bush apparently didn’t win it. According to an article by ESPN’s Ted Miller: In June, the […]

According to a piece in the Huffington Post, Texas A & M University has decided to take a drastic, and disgusting, step in budget cutting: It’s no surprise that universities have been eliminating extras in order to tighten budgets, but getting rid of toilet paper might really stink. Texas A&M University, which is trying to […]

It’s official. Despite apparent physical activity, cheerleading is some sort of club, not a sport. According to an article by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo in the Christian Science Monitor: Cheerleading can be athletic and competitive, but it doesn’t count as a sport when universities are counting up male and female athletes to comply with Title IX, […]

Soon, families might have a slightly better idea what they might actually pay to attend college. According to an article by Caralee Adams in Education Week: Yesterday, financial aid administrators, gathered at their annual conference in Denver, talked about a new federal law requiring institutions to provide a net price calculator on their websites. The […]

The fact the American economy collapsed recently due in large part to the creative financial manipulations of graduates of America’s fanciest business schools has apparently not affected these schools’ reputations. At any rate, it hasn’t deterred imitators. According to a Bloomberg article by Alison Damast: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Asia’s top-ranked graduate […]